Editing Funkytown (section)

{{Short description|1980 single by Lipps Inc.}}
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{{Use American English|date=September 2020}}
{{Infobox song
| name          = Funkytown
| image         = Funkytown by Lipps Inc US single side A.png
| alt           = 
| caption       = Side A of US 7-inch vinyl single
| type          = [[Single (music)|Single]]
| artist        = [[Lipps Inc.]]
| album         = [[Mouth to Mouth (Lipps Inc. album)|Mouth to Mouth]]
| B-side        = All Night Dancing
| released      = March 11, 1980<ref>{{cite book|first= Norm N. |last= Nite |author-link= Norm N. Nite |year= 1985 |title= Rock On: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock n' Roll : The Video Revolution, 1978-present |page= 189 |publisher= [[Harper & Row]] |isbn= 978-0-06-181644-4}}</ref>
| recorded      = <!-- Do not add an uncited recording year -->
| studio        = [[Sound 80]] ([[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]])
| venue         = 
| genre         = 
* [[Funk]]<ref>{{cite book|first1= Peter |last1= Pickow |first2= Amy |last2= Appleby |year= 1988 |title= The Billboard Book of Song Writing |publisher= Billboard Publications |page= 146}}</ref><ref name= "AS 2024">{{cite web|last= Casalena|first= Em|title= 4 One-Hit Wonders That Accidentally Defined Genres|website= [[American Songwriter]]|date= January 11, 2025|url= https://americansongwriter.com/4-one-hit-wonders-that-accidentally-defined-genres/|accessdate= January 11, 2025}}</ref>
* [[disco]]<ref name= "Billboard Pop 500"/><ref>{{cite web|first= Steve |last= Huey |title= Lipps, Inc. – Artist Biography |website= [[AllMusic]] |access-date= June 26, 2013 |url= http://www.allmusic.com/artist/lipps-inc-mn0000243932/biography}}</ref>
* [[Minneapolis sound]]<ref name= "Billboard Pop 500">{{cite magazine|last= Billboard Staff|title= The 500 Best Pop Songs: Staff List|magazine= [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |url= https://www.billboard.com/lists/best-pop-songs-all-time-hits/|date= October 19, 2023|accessdate= February 11, 2024|quote= The Minneapolis Sound jam that makes moving to another city sound about 10000x more fun than it is in practice, and proof that disco didn’t go the way of the dodo as soon as the calendar turned to 1980.}}</ref>
* [[synth-pop]]<ref name= "Breihan 2020">{{cite web|first= Tom |last= Breihan |title= The Number Ones: Lipps, Inc.'s "Funkytown"|website= [[Stereogum]] |date= March 25, 2020 |url= https://www.stereogum.com/2077732/the-number-ones-lipps-inc-s-funkytown/columns/the-number-ones/|quote= ...but it does bridge eras in a similar way, connecting the dying embers of disco to the bleepy synthpop that was still taking shape in 1980... yet the song’s chilly sparseness...look[s] forward into the coming synthpop explosion of the ’80s.|accessdate= July 15, 2023}}</ref>
* [[dance-pop]]<ref name= "Marsh 1989">{{cite book|first=Dave|last=Marsh|title=The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5t5DYDniSHEC|date=1989|publisher=[[Plume (publisher)|Plume]]|isbn=0-452-26305-0|page=141}}</ref>
| length        = 
* 7:50 (album version)
* 3:59 (single version)
* 2:45 (video version)
| label         = [[Casablanca Records|Casablanca]]
| writer        = [[Steven Greenberg (musician)|Steven Greenberg]]
| producer      = Steven Greenberg
| prev_title    = [[Rock It (Lipps Inc. song)|Rock It]]
| prev_year     = 1979
| next_title    = [[How Long (Ace song)#Cover versions|How Long]]
| next_year     = 1980
| misc          = {{External music video|{{YouTube|uhzy7JaU2Zc|"Funkytown"}} at ''[[Musikladen]]''}}
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"'''Funkytown'''" is a song by American [[disco]]-[[funk]] group [[Lipps Inc.]], written and produced by [[Steven Greenberg (musician)|Steven Greenberg]] and released by [[Casablanca Records]] in March 1980 as the second [[Single (music)|single]] from the group's debut studio album, ''[[Mouth to Mouth (Lipps Inc. album)|Mouth to Mouth]]'' (1979). The track was met with immediate commercial success, reaching number one on various [[record chart]]s in different countries including Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, West Germany and on the US [[Billboard Hot 100|''Billboard'' Hot 100]].<ref name="BEL"/><ref name="CAN"/><ref name="Lipps Inc. awards"/> It quickly became the group's signature song, selling over eight million copies worldwide and becoming their most successful song.<ref name="billboard">{{cite magazine|title= New Design |magazine= [[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]] |date= September 20, 1980 |volume= 92 |issue= 38 |page= 4 |issn= 0006-2510 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=HCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT3}}</ref>